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Landrieu Calls for Appointment of Cabinet Level Official to Oversee Hurricane Recovery

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Press release September 3, Senator Mary Landrieu: Landrieu Implores President to “Relieve Unmitigated Suffering;” End FEMA’s “Abject Failures”

  • “”But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. The good and decent people of southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast — black and white, rich and poor, young and old — deserve far better from their national government.”
  • Many Evacuated, but Thousands Still Waiting – White House Shifts Blame to State and Local Officials (Washington Post reg. reg’d)
  • State of Louisiana, Executive Department, Proclamation No. 48 KBB 2005, State of Emergency, Hurricane Katrina, dated August 26, 2005, and signed by Governor Kathleen Blanco
  • WSJ free feature: United by Katrina, Divided by Assessment: As Mississippi Gov. Barbour Praises Federal Response, Louisiana’s Blanco Seeks More Aid
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